Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22
Pioneer Enion at the NJ. e. church,
April 9th, at 3 O'clock. p. m.
WILD

WILD OATS
have Just laid dowa . medical jour
nal with Indignation. Said Indignation
being cause,s by the perusal of IN ar
ticle by Prof. j. W. Bowling OF New
York.
The doctor goes on TO elumerate n
many ailments, aches, PAINS, etc, of a
male patient who has wasted his life
IN "riotons living; is d complete wreck
physically and morally, and stiU prom
ises the doctor to marty some good
woman and commence life as he ought
to have commenced twenty years ago"
Now | wonder II Cr. Bowling would
like to have his pure, sweet daughter
to fail victim to such IL moioch. such a
carcass OF corruption, not fit TO touch
the hand of a pure, noble Womans H.
1t is no wonder the race is degenerate
ing, and it does seem that the medical
profession should elevate, and not de-
grade woman; and while the learned
NJ. DIS treat Of hygiene, let them give
us a taste of heredity, occasionally, to
counteract all such illusions us the one
referred TO. Aud while they are deal
ing in prevention Of disease, we would
like to. remind them to please advise
such d%ilapidated, demoralized men to
mate with some woman who has also
sown wild oats" - they Will find more
c~ongeniality.
Let the mother also look after the
morals Of her boys even more carefully
than her girls, on account Of the great
er temptations in store for them.
.raach them from infancy to SO live,
as to be in every sense worthy Of apure.
modest companion. DO away With
that false idea that immortality can be
condoned when the sinner is of the
male sex. I do not believe. Prof. Dow
ling or any one else ever knew q pure
man OF spotless character to marry a
woman who had led a vicious life, and
place her in high position in society,
no matter what circumstances may
have led to her downfall. Social Puri-
ty", the latest and greatest crusade, is
creating quite a revolution OF senti-
ment on this question and not many
years hence the disgrace will rest equal
iy upon both parties.
just as | laid down my pen from the
above, my eye fell upon a pamphlet, en-
titled "Vice and Dress by FrancisWil-
lard, in which she says, "the customs OF
our chest society" makes it difficult to
keep the pledge. She goes on to say
that ''if young women knew What is
the outcome to those tempted as they
are not, of an evening spent in their
company, where the low corsage, the
naked arm, the whirling dance. allure
young manhood, they would sink upon
their faces before God in penjtenre. Ii
they realized what distressed parents
could tell them, as they have told me.
about the results of such a temptation
upon the conduct OF their sons; The
penalties vicariously borne, the blight
upon homes, peace and purity, not even
the all-potent dictum Of the Gm-)"mod-
iste' could hereafter bring them to this
unchaste public d~isrobing.
Ii young woman knew, what young
men think and say Of them, when they
pass along the street in pyramldal hats
which are but cages of dead birds; dres-
SEES displaying the bandaged hour-glass'
waist, the camels-hump, the hopping
skirt, with front r%e-strapped, so as tc
displaythe lowerlimbs in most unseen
lv fashion; with arms aklmbo and sc
pinchel that a sausage is their only
parallel, and this fashionable etligy, up
borne upon the same hideous, stout.
heeled pedestals that the "demi-monde'
OF Paris wear: if even these young wo'
men could hear the remarks OF the
Young men as they pass by them, they
would never again appear in such
hideous guise."
1t is IL legitimate part OF our temper
anct ana SOCiul pitley WIN " l"hA
away the reproach that justly falls up
on woman in these days for their lg'
norant and sinful disregard OF natures
laws, regarding their own health, and
their thoughtless addition to the tempt
ations of men by their manner Of dress
Mr.. Miller, who left &1,4OO,OOO to
found the Miller Manual Labor School
III Virginia, made his money as a to-
bacco merchant, yet never himself used
the weed he spent his life in selling to
others. lie attributed his living tothe
advanced age Of seventy~six to his alb
stinence in this direction.
A petition signed by the liquor deal
ers of Texas was sent to the Legislature
March X, requesting that body to post
pone the holding Of the Prohibition
election until the next general election,
it being alleged by the petitioners that
the Wholesale liquor dealers have SO
much owing them by their customers